Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: The Government have not undertaken any studies into the relative merits of subterranean and overhead cables for connecting offshore generation.
	To date all power transmission offshore has involved undersea cables. There are a number of severe technical difficulties, which would appear to preclude an overhead pylon system at sea and therefore the feasibility of such a system would be a matter for the electricity industry to consider.

Lord Adonis: Higher education institutions are autonomous organisations responsible for their own academic direction and provision of courses in the light of student demand. Within that framework, we asked the Higher Education Funding Council for England for advice on how to secure and strengthen subjects of strategic national importance. After considering the views of the higher education sector and others with an interest, we responded formally to that advice on 28 October indicating that we need to maintain national capacity in far eastern languages and areas' studies such as Korean studies. A copy of that response has been placed in the Library.